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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.


Guiny, Patrick Robert, soldier, was bom In 1861 he became captain in the ninth regiment Massachusetts infantry; and in 1865 vas brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Jlarch 21, 1877.

Guiteras, Juan, physician, surgeon, pathologist, was born Jan. 4, 1852, in Matanzas, Cuba. In 1873 he received the degree ot il.D. from the university of Pennsylvania, in Ireland.

which institution also conferred upon him the

degree of Ph.D. 1879-89 he was

In

engaged in marine hospita! service; and has served as expert in yellow fever in all of the epidemics since 1881. For professor of pathology at

the university of Pennsylvania. In 1898 he was on the staff of General Shafter as yellow fever expert in the Santiago campaign;

and

prominently identified with Cuban He is professor of general pathology and tropical medicine at the university of Havana; dean of the medical faculty; and director of Las Animas hospital of Habana, Cuba.

He is a member of the superior board of health; is president of the commission for infectious diseases; and is a member of the national board of health of He has been vice-president of the Cuba. is

politics.

association of health officers of North America; president of the second national medical congress of Cuba; and editor of La Revista de Medicina Tropical. He is a member of the leading medical and health associations of Cuba and America.

Gunn, James, United States senator, was born in 1739 in Virginia. In 1789-1.801 he was a United States senator from Georgia. He died July 30, 1801, in Louisville, Ky.

Gunn, James, soldier, state senator, congressman, was i)0rn March 6, 1843, in New York. He volunteered as a private in company G, twenty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, and attained the rank of captain. In 1880 he joined the rush of prospectors to Idaho, making the town of Hailey, in Wood River valley, his home. He was elected to the state senate of the first legislature in 1890; and in 1897-99 he was a representative to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist. Gunnison, Almon, clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1844 in Maine. For twenty years he was pastor of All soul's church at Brooklyn, N.Y. and for ten years was pastor of the First universalist church at Worcester, Mass. Since 1898 he has been president of St. Lawrence university of Canton, N.Y. He is the author of Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent; and Wayside and Fireside Rambles.

Since 1900 he has been an inin Erie, I'a. structor in elocution at the Andover theological seminary. In 1905-06 he was instructor in public speaking at Harvard uniHe is the author of New Dialogues and Plays; and Pieces for Prize Speaking Contests. versity.

Gunnison, Walter Balfour, educator, auwas born May 2, 1852, in Abington, In 1875 he graduated from the St. Lawrence university; and for ten years was professor of latin languages and literature in that institution. Since its organization in 1886 he has been principal at Erasmus hall high school of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and is president of the university club of He is co-author of First Year that city. thor, ilass.

of Latin.

Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley, educator, clerscientist, author, poet, was born on Jan. 1, 1856, in Chesterville, Ohio. For ten years he attended the public schools; graduated from high school; and in 1875 graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university. He has filled pastorates in the congregational churches at Columbus, Ohio at Newtonville, Mass.; at Baltimore, Md.; in 1887-99 at

gyman,

Plymouth

in

Monk and Knight; Life William Ewart Gladstone; Metamorphosis of a Creed; November at Eastwood; Loose Leaves of Song; The Man of Galilee; Paths to Power; Paths to the City of God; and Higher Ministries of Recent English uration of Christ;

of

Poetry.

Gunther, Charles Frederick, naval officer, merchant, manufacturer, public official, was born March 6, 1837, in Wildberg, Wurtemberg, Germany. In 1843 he came to the United States and received his education in

the public schools. For several years he was a bank cashier; and during the civil war he served in the confederate navy. Since 1868 he has been a manufacturing confectioner;

Gunnison, Binney, educator, elocutionist, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 20, 1863,

church

Chicago and since 1899 at the Central church of Chicago. Since 1893 he has been president of the Armour institute of technology; and is a professional lecturer in the university of Chicago. He is the author of Phidias and Other Poems; Songs of Night and Day; Transfig-

and has Chicago, Ill.

member

of

and

He

up an

Chicago common council; he served two terms as city

the

in 1900-04

built

extensive business in served two terms as a